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WALPOLE, Robert [1781-1856] (Editor).. Memoirs Relating To European And Asiatic Turkey; Edited From Manuscript Journals.

4to. pp. xxii, 607. tipped-in errata slip. 8 engraved maps & plates (1 folding), 2 aquatints (1 double-page), & 4 panoramic views of Athens drawn by William Haygarth & etched by C.Turner. aquatint title vignette & tailpiece. several text illus. modern half calf (scattered foxing mainly affecting plates & adjacent leaves). First Edition of this collection of important previously unpublished material on the natural history, commerce, topography, and architecture of Greece and Asia Minor by John Sawrey Morritt, John Squire, and other noted travellers, scientists, and classical scholars. Included are papers on monasteries and libraries by Dr. Hunt, the antiquities of Egypt by Nathaniel Davison, the mines of Laurium and the gold and silver coinage of the Athenians by the editor and the Earl of Aberdeen, the flora and fauna of Greece and Cyprus by botanist John Sibthorp, &c. Blackmer 1762.

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